Git & GitHub Crash Course for Beginners [2026]

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Learn Git and GitHub from scratch with clear examples, real workflows, branching, merging, stashing, rebase, pull requests, and more. Perfect for beginners who want strong foundations. 📚Resources 🔗 Git/GitHub Cheatsheet - 🔗 logicBase Labs YouTube Channel - 🔗 Sumit Saha Personal Website - 🔗 Sumit Saha freeCodeCamp Handbooks - 🔗 logicBaseLabs LinkedIn Page - 🔗 logicBaseLabs X - 🔗 logicBaseLabs Facebook - ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: ⏱️ Chapters - 0:00:00 Introduction to Git & GitHub - 0:02:51 Why Version Control Matters - 0:06:16 How Git Works (Core Concepts) - 0:09:31 Installing Git on Windows/Mac/Linux - 0:12:46 Creating Your First Git Project (git init) - 0:16:06 Understanding git status - 0:19:21 Staging Files with git add - 0:22:41 Committing Changes (git commit) - 0:25:56 Deleting Files Safely (git rm, --cached, -f) - 0:29:11 Viewing Commit History (git log) - 0:31:46 Working with Branches (git branch, checkout) - 0:35:56 Merging Branches - 0:38:51 Merge Conflicts Explained - 0:42:36 Checking Out Older Commits - 0:45:06 Comparing Versions with git diff - 0:47:56 Pushing to GitHub (git push) - 0:51:21 Fetch vs Pull (git fetch, git pull) - 0:54:46 Undoing Changes Safely (git restore) - 0:58:06 Saving Temporary Work (git stash) - 1:01:26 Reverting Commits (git revert) - 1:04:46 Understanding Git Rebase - 1:09:06 Creating a Pull Request on GitHub - 1:12:36 Reviewing & Mer